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Here's a new way to read 'the Bible'
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:53 pm
by agricola
Sounds quite interesting! I'll have to check this out -
h**ps://slate.com/human-interest/2018/01/why-it-could-be-revolutionary-to-package-the-bible-as-a-novel-instead-of-a-textbook.html
Removes the 'chapter-verse with footnotes' in favor of a 'novel or narrative text' organized by genre.
Re: Here's a new way to read 'the Bible'
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:43 am
by Cootie Brown
Will it be available in an authorized King James Version?
Re: Here's a new way to read 'the Bible'
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:35 pm
by agricola
No Cootie, I don't think so. More modern English at least. I don't know if there is any single translation being used. This TYPE of presentation is being done by more than one group, so perhaps each is either using an existing translation or commissioning new ones (which would be super expensive, so I doubt that is common).
Re: Here's a new way to read 'the Bible'
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:07 pm
by SolaDude
Wow, I hope Moses and every other Biblical author who took painstaking measures to number their verses so the CofC could preserve their proof-texting existence don't find this out....well, I guess they'd have to say, "page 47, paragraph 2, line 6", etc. instead of book/chapter/verse....Then there will be "Page 47, paragraph 2, line 6" -based church splits...."Come visit us, we're called the Page 47 Church of Christ"......
Re: Here's a new way to read 'the Bible'
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2018 3:44 pm
by Shrubbery
SolaDude wrote:Wow, I hope Moses and every other Biblical author who took painstaking measures to number their verses so the CofC could preserve their proof-texting existence don't find this out....well, I guess they'd have to say, "page 47, paragraph 2, line 6", etc. instead of book/chapter/verse....Then there will be "Page 47, paragraph 2, line 6" -based church splits...."Come visit us, we're called the Page 47 Church of Christ"......
So glad I wasn't drinking when I read that...